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For the past 2 years, I've been creating a tri-weekly webcomic called Askaran about my experiences of life, anxiety, and the world (You may have even seen my previous post here on Bored Panda).

When the COVID-19 pandemic started to emerge at the start of the year, it didn't quite make sense to continue writing comics about the depressed, anxious and fictional Askaran, while ignoring the massive virus that seemed to be affecting every aspect of our lives, so, unfortunately for Askaran, the coronavirus started breaking out in his fictional world too.

Here are 27 of my comics about life during the coronavirus.

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CrunChewy McSandybutt
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I lived in an apartment complex and one Thursday night some college kids decided to stand on their balcony, laughing and talking way past 4:00 AM. The next day the landscaping crew was doing their work and I asked the guy with the leaf blower if he could maybe find a really stubborn leaf outside their front door. He assured me he would.

J Rob
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, b/c it's all about payback...

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    J Rob
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Toilet paper is back on the shelves in abundance in my region.

    Kira K.
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oml im peanut butter and JELLYYYYYYYYYYYY

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    Steve Internet
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These days I’m to scared to go to the grocery store. I get my dopamine from leaves.

    John L
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you Really, REALLY want a pure rush of excitement, try adrenaline. As Winston Churchill once stated, "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." As a combat veteran, been there and done that: and it is the biggest high one can ever imagine. And there are thousands of ways to get high on this drug. Unfortunately, the high only lasts for a 'fleeting moment' in time. Then one has to do it again.......and again........and..................... from a recovering adrenaline junkie.

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    Daria B
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The relativity of time surely is interesting. I feel like this year has been very fast. It's June already, half the year is already gone and it felt like yesterday when in December I postponed my planned trip to my hometown (Croatia) for May of this year. In the meantime Mr. Problem's government (문재인) set up a ridiculous law and now I just can't leave neither for holidays, because I can't re-enter. Not that I would travel abroad with the coronavirus around, but it makes no sense, when you consider we pose just as much threat as the rest of the fellow Koreans who didn't leave the country since last year's Thanksgiving (Japan). Especially when you take into account some of us have marriage and permanent visas. I so hope this is temporary and can't wait for it to end, but the political consequences of this crisis scare me more than the virus itself. It's like, some corrupted leaders took the opportunity to sneak out oppressive measures while the world is busy fighting with a serious threat already.

    cat man
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    sigh it has felt like years i am so used to this now but it is only may 2020

    Freya the Wanderer
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've seen in a few places a yard sign that declares "What a year this week has been!"

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    KimTx
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The cat is not impressed by such wisdom.

    Summer Thyme
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that cat doesnt give a crap in the world

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    cat man
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At first I was afraid, I was petrified Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong And I grew strong, and I learned how to get along And so you're back from outer space I just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face I should have changed that stupid lock I should have made you leave your key If I'd have known for just one second you'd be back to bother me Go on now, go. Walk out the door Just turn around now 'cause you're not welcome anymore Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye? Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? Oh, no, not I I will survive Oh, as long as I know how to love I know I'll stay alive I've got all my life to live I've got all my love to give And I'll survive I will survive, hey, hey It took all the strength I had not to fall apart Kept trying hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart And I spent, oh, so many nights just feeling so

    Steve Internet
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One up arrow = one person who read that entire thing.

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    Ann Marie Weatherhead
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'Hello Darkness my old friend' would have been a horrible song selection as well.

    Laugh Fan
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not if it was actually sung by David Draiman!

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    deewanipoetry
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True true true true true true true.Nothing more wise was ever spoken of.

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    deewanipoetry
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And I've never baked anything in my life.

    WillemPenn
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ha! I'm almost done with the first season of Dark Shadows. I understand the feeling.

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    Love Math
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the sad truth - we must delay dreams

    Magpie
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I acknowledge that we are privileged to be able to stay home, to have electricity and stuff so that we can read this.

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    Meyer Weinstock
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into a bar...and fell down because they hit the metal bar with their foreheads.

    Meyer Weinstock
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A priest, a minister, and a rabbi walk into a bar...and the bartender says, "What is this another lame joke?"

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    Ann Marie Weatherhead
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beds are the new dining table for us all. sigh

    CrunChewy McSandybutt
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Breakfast in bed seems like such a bad idea to me.

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    cat man
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i have 24/7 self loathing

    Steve Internet
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have 25/8 self-loathing! Ha! I beat you! I am good at something! I don’t hate myself completely! You have fulfilled a dream.

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    Thunder
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I literally read this comic at 8 AM

    deewanipoetry
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All my fellow self depricators assemble.

    Bored Birgit
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How the puppet looks at him in the third panel!

    Freya the Wanderer
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of the live-action Grinch movie.

    Mario Clouâtre
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    First read the key to good health was "solid poutine" 😅 🍟🧀

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    J Rob
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Askaran is the fellow in the window lamenting that although the restrictions are being pulled back "soon" and people can begin to visit w/friends he doesn't have any. So he has until "soon" to make some. Oh My...

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    Ann Marie Weatherhead
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is so relatable. My morning friend is a sparrow who comes to me and I feed him, he even tweets before he picks up his food and flys away. Small joys still exist. I called him Jack ...Jack Sparrow. :)

    deewanipoetry
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are all slowly turning into cats I guess.

    Lynda Momalo
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My Australian DIL was a little disappointed that the thing her toddler son most remembered about going to Australia was the Ibises AKA bin chickens.

    Meyer Weinstock
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where can your see an ibis in a city? Cairo?

    Lynda Momalo
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Australia. Yeah, I was thinking Egypt too, the first time I heard ibis.

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    Meyer Weinstock
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can that be calculated in a mu differential...asking for a friend....

    Freya the Wanderer
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm surprised liquor stores didn't empty out before lockdown began. People knew they were going to be cooped up with spouses and kids - and pets.

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    Tracey Hirt
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait, doesn’t everyone just assume their produce has been handled by multiple strangers, so they wash it when they get home? It can’t just be me, right?

    K. aka letmeplaywithkittens
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tracey... sighhhs... that’s what I thought about hand washing, covering your cough, and human decency. There’s quite a bit of people on every shade of the spectrum.

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    Magpie
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Total strangers are scared of me now. They *look* at me and move away.,...further away. I am 5foot, but i have allergies and asthma and menopause . So i sneeze , cough and sweat. _______it is weird to have total strangers scared of me.

    The Emerald Triangle
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    None of them are wearing masks! They're probably all sick. Which would explain that pale complection.

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    Hannahcat1127
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i get hot in the night no cold but i can get cold in the day

    Thunder
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never experience cold...

    Kaeden
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am always hot at night.

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    John L
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Question here. What's with this guy's left hand?

    Slune
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's his soul puppet, everyone should have a soul puppet!

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